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When a child suffers a life-threatening illness or accident, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is often the first on the scene and the first to saving medical strategies to restore or maintain breathing before the child can get to the hospital.

The Pedi-PART study is designed to determine the best strategy to restore or maintain breathing in children.

There are three methods that EMS personnel currently use to maintain/restore breathing in children:

  1. Bag valve mask ventilation (BVM): paramedics place a tight-fitting mask on top of the face and squeeze oxygen in through the mouth and nose and into the lungs.
  2. endotracheal intubation (ETI): paramedics place a plastic tube down the throat through the voice box and squeeze oxygen into the windpipe and lungs.
  3. supraglottic airway insertion (SGA): paramedics place a special tube in the mouth and down the throat above the voice box and squeeze oxygen into the windpipe and lungs.

In this study, we will determine which method works best for child survival by comparing the 3 methods that are used every day by emergency medical providers to manage airways and support breathing.

Participating EMS agencies will be assigned to use a different method each day. This will allow researchers to compare the effectiveness of each method. If the assigned method is unsuccessful then EMS may rescue with any other airway method.

EMS agencies from 10 different cities across the US will participate in the trial. These EMS agencies are collaborating with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN Link).

The cities that will participate are:


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Participating Hospital(s)

Participating EMS Agencies

Children’s National Medical Center

Prince George’s County Fire/EMS

 

District of Columbia Fire & EMS


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